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Foul Play: Crime Series

Special: Halloween 2020

Foul Play: Crime Series

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Daily News, History

4.4986 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Happy Halloween from the Foul Play team! This special bonus episode includes the history of Halloween and how different cultures celebrate it. Of course, any good Halloween episode wouldn't be complete with some creepy true stories...

Transcript

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Bien 5th of the incident totally put the suspect in the picture. 3rd Wieb 172, no water warrant. The U.S. 1st is going to be able to travel to the police. Oh, Welcome to this special Halloween bonus episode of foul play. We will be talking all things Halloween, from the origins and the

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folklore to how Halloween is celebrated around the world and of course a few

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true-crime Halloween tales. It's time to grab that coffee. A goblet of blood or something

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little stronger if you prefer. Strap yourself in for a hair-raising episode. The story of Halloween is thought to have started some 2,000 years ago in regions including the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Northern France.

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Contrary to popular belief, its origins were nothing to do with witches and devils. But it was a seasonal Celtic

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festival, like a harvest festival called Soan, taking place from sundown on October 31st through November 1st.

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It was an annual Harvest Festival to celebrate the end of autumn and to welcome in the winter.

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And was one of four such celebrations held throughout the year.

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These were known as the fire festivals. Those celebrating Salwin believed that the barriers between the physical and spirit worlds broke down during

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this festival, allowing more interaction between humans and those who have left us.

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Not much is known about the festival.

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Some people believe that as well as building a large fire, there would be a huge feast. Others say there were druid priests lighting communal fires,

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and many believe that there were animal sacrifices.

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By 43 AD, the Romans had conquered the majority of the Celtic territories.

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And the Sowin festival was combined with two festivals of Roman origin.

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The first was in honor of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees.

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The symbol of Pomona was the apple,

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so this may explain the tradition of apple bobbing in Halloween.

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The second was a day in late October when the Romans commemorated the passing of the dead.

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This was known as Pharelia. Let's fast forward to the 7th century.

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By now, many Western European nations had converted to Christianity.

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